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219: Skepticrat219 - Sneaker of the Louse Edition Feb 26, 2024

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On this week's episode: Donald Trump tries to CHUCK a few BUCKS ... We’ll rank the (Presidential) races ... And George Santos files a lawsuit against Jimmy Kimmel for aggravated irony.
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Headline Sources:
Donald Trump has a sneaker: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/18/trump-sneaker/
The Informant Turned Defendant Who Took Aim at the Bidens: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/21/us/politics/smirnov-fbi-biden-russia.html
New historical ranking of US Presidents just dropped: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/20/presidents-ranking-trump-biden-list
George Santos sues Jimmy Kimmel for tricking him into making Cameo videos: https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/19/business/george-santos-sues-jimmy-kimmel/index.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/jimmy-kimmel-ap-george-santos-new-york-republican-b2498076.html
Hiker kills coyote with his bare hands after attack; tests confirm the animal had rabies: https://apnews.com/article/hiker-kills-coyote-with-bare-hands-f5a5ad44ee8ea98729c85f95d7fed434
Intuitive Machines becomes first private company to land on the moon: https://www.space.com/intuitive-machines-odysseus-moon-lander-tipped-over
Lindell ordered by judge to pay $5 million for losing the bet he made: https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/federal-judge-affirms-mypillow-mike-lindell-must-pay-5m-in-election-data-dispute/

218: Skepticrat218 - Putin on the Fritz Edition Feb 12, 2024

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On this week's episode: We unveil some horrifying Groundhog Day lore ... We find out just how popular the Popular Conservatives are ... And Twitter deals with Russian misinformation for the very first time.
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Headline Sources:
Tucker Carlson interviews Vladimir Putin: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/02/tucker-carlson-putin-interview-fact-check-history.html
King diagnosed with cancer, Buckingham Palace says: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68208157
King Charles criticised for appointing pro-homeopathy doctor: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/10/king-charles-criticised-appointing-homeopath-michael-dixon-head-royal-medical-household
Punxsutawney Phil predicts an early spring: https://apnews.com/article/groundhog-day-punxsutawney-phil-d73f9f79e4b5232bf573100136a6b86f
Republicans don't know how to count: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/congress-republicans-alejandro-mayorkas-impeachment-border-deal-failures_n_65c2d67ae4b093b2e7816d96
Truss’s PopCon group splinters on launch but attacks Sunak’s policies: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/06/popular-conservatism-has-splintered-but-is-united-in-criticism-of-sunaks-policies
Taylor Drift and Clark W. Blizzwald take top honors in Minnesota snowplow-naming contest: https://apnews.com/article/snowplow-contest-taylor-drift-blizzwald-beyonsleigh-0525c86addd6f8f4e579ccc3fd340238
Laurence Fox loses libel battle: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/jan/29/laurence-fox-loses-libel-battle-with-twitter-x-users-he-called-paedophiles

217: Skepticrat217 - Court Marshall Edition Jan 29, 2024

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On this week's episode: The British Post Office will try to argue that justice got lost in the mail ... Donald Trump asks E Jean Carroll how much she’d knock off if he let her be his running mate ... And Colorado District 4 rolls out the red carpetbag for Lauren Boebert.
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Headline Sources:
Trump ordered to pay in E Jean Carroll defamation case: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-e-jean-carroll-trial-closing-arguments-courtroom/
UK conservatives plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-61782866
Trump wins Iowa and New Hampshire and GOP dropouts all of a sudden love him again:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/26/gops-awkward-2016-flip-flops-trump-make-comeback-2024/
Trump's possible picks for VP: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/25/donald-trump-vice-president-pick-candidates/
Sarah Huckabee Sanders bought a lectern for $19,000 with a government credit card: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/10/13/sarah-huckabee-sanders-lectern/
Mars helicopter is dead: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/after-three-years-on-mars-nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-mission-ends
Japan’s upside down moon lander: https://apnews.com/article/japan-moon-lander-slim-probe-pinpoint-2908c74d9e3c4c8a5eabfb6b1625c617
UK Post Office "Horizon scandal" explained: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56718036
Lauren Boebert among field of other criminal idiots in first Republican debate for CO-4: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/25/lauren-boebert-republican-primary-debate-colorado/32f8b740-bb40-11ee-b176-fe5fd794e716_story.html
https://www.denverpost.com/2020/08/27/lauren-boebert-arrests-colorado-3rd-mitsch-bush/

216: Skepticrat216 - Heads Iowan Tails You Lose Edition Jan 15, 2024

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On this week's episode: Alaska Airlines catches a little TOO much air ... We’ll explain to Ron DeSantis that thought police aren’t supposed to go after all thought ... And we learn about darts from our intrepid sports reporter Eli Bosnick.
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Headline Sources:
Trump's Iowa town hall recap: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/10/us/politics/trump-town-hall-fox.html
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2024/01/10/trump-fox-news-town-hall-iowa-caucuses-highlights-christie/72163126007/
FAA Investigating Whether Boeing 737 Max 9 Conformed to Approved Design: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/11/business/faa-boeing-737-boeing-max-investigation.html
DefSec doesn’t bother to tell anyone he’ll be out of commission: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/08/congress-austin-pentagon-hospital-defense-00134286
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/13/us/politics/lloyd-austin-private-public.html
Lauren Boebert did not punch her ex-husband in the face or he's letting it go: https://apnews.com/article/lauren-boebert-exhusband-altercation-arrest-ed3ba1a94e6dba08bf67f1d5d54ad9b3
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67911826
AP PHOTOS: Raucous British fans put on a show at the world darts championship:
https://apnews.com/article/world-darts-championship-photos-e0aa730a30d305310b386cd101dc3e07
Florida schools remove dictionaries for being too woke: https://popular.info/p/florida-school-district-removes-dictionaries

215: Skepticrat215 - Musk of the Ride Death Edition Dec 18, 2023

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On this week's episode: Rudy Giuliani just needs a little help til Friday ... Ben Shapiro commits to the “it was for research” excuse after his wife catches him watching porn ... And everything is going wrong for Elon Musk.
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Headline Sources:
Rudy Giuliani order to pay $148 million in Georgia election defamation case: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/15/us/politics/rudy-giuliani-defamation-trial-damages.html
Elon Musk restores X account of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones: https://apnews.com/article/alex-jones-x-account-elon-musk-90cfc990631dec5e8f337167fbe16372
Daily Wire pundit claims Pornhub is "converting" cishet men with secret messages: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/12/rightwing-pundit-claims-popular-adult-website-is-converting-straight-men-with-secret-messages/
Tesla recalls all of their cars: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-67693935
Santacon: https://apnews.com/article/christmas-santa-pub-crawl-new-york-city-616ee17f07906fde81d7378f6ba206d5
Elon Musk's Grok Twitter AI is actually 'woke'...hilarity ensues: https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2023/12/10/elon-musks-grok-twitter-ai-is-actually-woke-hilarity-ensues/?sh=36a6cc336bce

214: Skepticrat214 - Sealed With a Kissinger Edition Dec 04, 2023

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On this week's episode: Henry Kissinger kills one last noncombatant ... Apple will take ownership of all of your photos at midnight ... And after a 2nd test, Donald Trump is now a double stable double genius.
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Trump says he's "seriously looking" at Obamacare alternatives: https://www.axios.com/2023/11/26/trump-obamacare-affordable-care-act
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/27/us/politics/trump-biden-obamacare.html
Trump "aces" another cognitive exam: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-obama-aced-cognitive-test_n_6564a795e4b0f35896f6c583
Henry Kissinger Was A War Criminal, But Presidents And Celebrities Smiled With Him: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/henry-kissinger-dead-leaders_n_5d10ef86e4b0aa375f50baf0
Police Departments get in on weird hysteria over Apple’s “Namedrop” system: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/11/27/namedrop-iphone-ios17-safety/
The sound of crunching chips is annoying, so Doritos made a silencer:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/11/27/doritos-silent-gaming-crunch-cancellation/
Trump tries to embrace Black Lives Matter, a group he previously said ‘hates our country’: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/29/trump-blm-endorsement-dispute/
Airplane crosses the Atlantic using sugar and fat as fuel: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2023/11/28/virgin-atlantic-sustainable-flight-lands-saf

213: Skepticrat213 - Even More Spurious George Edition Nov 20, 2023

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On this week's episode: George Santos enters the find out era of political tenure ... The Macy’s Day Parade will go woke ... And there's a US senator named Markwayne.
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Headline Sources:
Ethics panel releases findings on George Santos, Santos says he won’t seek reelection: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/16/nyregion/george-santos-ethics-committee.html
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade tells off One Million Moms: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/17/nyregion/thanksgiving-parade-nonbinary-lgbt-protest.html
Georgia GOP official says God attacks her opponents with brain tumors and puts them in wheelchairs: https://www.meidastouch.com/news/georgia-gop-official-says-god-attacks-her-opponents-with-brain-tumors-puts-them-in-wheelchairs
Harrison Floyd cries racism as Fani Willis moves to revoke his bond: https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/harrison-floyd-trevian-kutti-racism-fani-willis-rcna125743
Facebook will now allow ads claiming the 2020 election was stolen: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/15/facebook-ads-2020-election-rigged-stolen-instagram-policy
Theft of 2 million dimes leaves four facing federal charges: https://apnews.com/article/millions-dimes-stolen-truck-theft-philadelphia-mint-c141bc2e0f974dc3c8c12ddaf809c12a
Oklahoma senator challenges Teamsters president to fight at U.S. Senate hearing: https://kansasreflector.com/2023/11/14/oklahoma-senator-challenges-teamsters-president-to-fight-at-u-s-senate-hearing/

212: Skepticrat212 - And Find Out Edition Nov 06, 2023

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On this week's episode: Donald Trump’s gag orders expand into the literal ... Dominic Cummings will teach the BBC some naughty words ... And Trump's legal team defends him from the abolitionists of Colorado.
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Headline Sources:
Appeals court freezes gag order on Trump in DC trial:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/03/politics/chutkan-trump-gag-order-freeze/index.html
Judge in Trump's NY fraud trial expands gag order: https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/03/politics/trump-gag-order-engoron-clerk/index.html
Defendant in GA election case using the argument that the election really was stolen by Biden: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/11/03/trump-codefendant-georgia-election-case/
Boris Johnson asked if blowing hairdryer up nose could kill Covid, says ex-aide Cummings: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/boris-johnson-hairdryer-covid-dominic-cummings-b2439809.html
Colorado judge chides company that tried to pay $23,500 settlement in coins weighing 3 tons: https://ktla.com/strange-news/ap-strange-news/ap-colorado-judge-chides-company-that-tried-to-pay-23500-settlement-in-coins-weighing-3-tons/
Colorado trial to remove Trump from the ballot: https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/03/politics/14th-amendment-colorado-trump-trial/index.html
Labour accuses Rishi Sunak of angling for job after Elon Musk interview: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/nov/03/labour-accuses-rishi-sunak-of-angling-for-job-after-elon-musk-interview
Minister denies ‘cultural issue’ among Tory MPs after Crispin Blunt’s arrest: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/27/minister-denies-cultural-issue-among-tory-mps-after-crispin-blunts-arrest
Swans in Florida that date to Queen Elizabeth II gift are rounded up for their annual physicals: https://apnews.com/article/swan-roundup-florida-lakeland-8c878efccd378e3694eff9785dd86c4b

211: Skepticrat211 - Later Chesebro Edition Oct 23, 2023

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On this week's episode: A lying poker player gets called on his bluff ... a lying Congressman does too ... and Jim Jordan angrily looks for the receipt for his custom solid gold gavel.
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Headline Sources:
Still no House speaker: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/20/house-speaker-race-candidates-jim-jordan/
Poker player who drew donations for Las Vegas event lied about dying from cancer: https://apnews.com/article/world-series-of-poker-cancer-lie-37c639515dabcfac20597489620cdac4
SCOTUS lifts restriction on Biden admins communications with social media companies: https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/20/politics/supreme-court-social-media/
GA election case judge skeptical of asking potential jurors about "MAGA Republicans": https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/16/politics/georgia-election-subversion-case-jury/index.html
And Sidney Powell just flipped on Trump: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/10/sidney-powell-plea-deal-donald-trump-ouch.html
Football coach whose team called ‘Nazi’ during game says he was forced to resign, no ill intent: https://apnews.com/article/ohio-football-nazi-play-resign-brooklyn-beachwood-426a125a44790906c52601a654ad7998
George Santos somehow even worse: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/santos-charged-identity-theft-rcna119819
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/11/george-santos-republican-resolution-expel-house

210: Skepticrat210 - Motion to Staycate Edition Oct 09, 2023

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On this week's episode: Eli will file a motion to vacate against Heath ... Republicans continue their Mexican standoff against themselves ... and Mike Lindell will put the “fraud” into “schadenfreude”…again.
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Headline Sources:
McCarthy ousted as house speaker: https://apnews.com/article/mccarthy-gaetz-speaker-motion-to-vacate-congress-327e294a39f8de079ef5e4abfb1fa555
Nobel prize winners
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/6/who-are-the-2023-nobel-prize-winners-so-far
Trump accidentally shared nuclear secrets… again: https://abcnews.go.com/US/after-white-house-trump-allegedly-discussed-potentially-sensitive/story
FDA panel says common over-the-counter decongestant doesn’t work
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-panel-says-common-counter-decongestant-phneylephrine-doesnt-work-rcna104424
Lindell’s legal team quits en masse: https://www.thedailybeast.com/mike-lindell-and-mypillow-owe-millions-to-lawyers-actively-trying-to-ditch-them
https://apnews.com/article/mike-lindell-mypillow-no-money-election-lawsuits-047932c7207734c080b07dca8d8868a5
The Hollywood writers’ strike is over — and they won big
https://www.vox.com/culture/2023/9/24/23888673/wga-strike-end-sag-aftra-contract

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